The Cyclicality of Immigrant Wages and Labour Market Flows: Evidence from Spain

Immigrant Assimilation Pre and Post Labour Market Entry: Evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey

We estimate models of employment an earnings for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2004. Immigrants who arrived to enter the labour market (labour market entrants) are distinguished from those who arrived to complete their education (education entrants). Diverse patterns of labour market assimilation are found depending on ethnic...

Occupational Feminization, Specialized Human Capital and Wages: Evidence from the British Labour Market

Research has consistently demonstrated a negative and significant relationship between occupational feminization and wages. This has traditionally been attributed to societal mechanisms undervaluing the work mainly performed by women. More recently, empirical evidence from the US and Europe has supported theories based on the concept of specialized human capital. We examine whether lower wages ...

The 2012 Labour Market Reform in Spain:

Labour Market Mismatch and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Piaac

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Efficiency Wages and the Economic Effects of the Minimum Wage: Evidence from a Low-Wage Labour Market

We exploit a natural experiment provided by the 1999 introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) to test for efficiency wage considerations in a low-wage sector, the UK residential care homes industry. Empirical results provide support to the wagesupervision trade-off prediction of the shirking model and suggest that the NMW may have operated as an efficiency wage. Our findings are in li...